Agron Shehaj

Agron Shehaj (born 8 December 1977) is an Albanian entrepreneur and politician who is the founder and leader of the Opportunity Party . He has been a member of the Albanian Parliament for Tirana County since 2021, having previously represented Vlorë County from 2017 to 2019. He was formerly a member of the Democratic Party before leaving the party during the opposition split and founding the Opportunity Party in 2024.

In the 2025 Albanian parliamentary election, the Opportunity Party won 48,995 votes and two seats in parliament, both in Tirana County. The new parliament first sat on 12 September 2025. He completed secondary education in Bolzano and studied economics at the University of Florence.

Shehaj has also been involved in civil-society and memory projects. In 2018, he founded the Kujto Foundation, which operates the Kujto.al digital archive on victims and crimes of Albania's communist regime, together with journalists, historian Erald Kapri and lawyer Orjon Nallbati.

Political career Democratic Party Shehaj entered national politics with the Democratic Party ahead of the 2017 Albanian parliamentary election, when he led the party's candidate list in Vlorë County. He was elected to parliament in 2017. During the opposition boycott of parliament in 2019, he left parliament along with other Democratic Party MPs.

In the 2021 Albanian parliamentary election, Shehaj was elected as a Democratic Party MP for Tirana County. After the party's defeat in that election, he ran for chairman of the Democratic Party, saying that the party needed new leadership, internal democracy and a stronger opposition to Edi Rama's government. He lost the leadership contest to Lulzim Basha.

Following the Democratic Party's internal split after the Sali Berisha–Basha conflict, Shehaj distanced himself from the party. In November 2023, he said that he no longer considered the Democratic Party a credible alternative and that he would no longer be part of its structures. Reporter.al described the party as a personalised centre-right project built around Shehaj, with an economic-liberal and anti-corruption message.

During the 2025 Albanian parliamentary election, the Opportunity Party competed as one of 11 electoral subjects in an election with 53 registered political parties and first-time postal voting for the Albanian diaspora. The party won 48,995 votes, or 3.05 per cent, and two seats in parliament. After the election, Shehaj said the party would act as a modern opposition force focused on the future.

Personal life Shehaj is married and has three children.

Election results Parliamentary elections Election Party Constituency Result Notes 2017 Democratic Party Vlorë County Elected Led the Democratic Party list in the county 2021 Democratic Party Tirana County Elected Later left Democratic Party structures 2025 Opportunity Party Tirana County Elected Party won 48,995 votes and two seats nationally